Create outlook tasks and place them into a created folder

[ebDev]

Hi All,

I am creating an onboarding application and have stored the lists of tasks into a Common Data Service Entity.
I have created the folder. However, I noticed that I cannot specify the folderId when creating it (Since the only parameters that can be passed are Name and GroupId).
So my issue is that I cannot store my tasks into that created folder since I cannot seem to identify it.

Additionally, these task lists will be created everytime a new employee is hired, so no values can be hard coded. 

Attached is a snippet of the function in question.

Thank you in advance for any help!

[RandyHayes · Accepted solution]

@ebDev 

OutlookTasks.CreateTasksFolder will return a payload of information.  If you assign that to a variable, you will have the ID.

UpdateContext({newTask: OutlookTasks.CreateTasksFolder(empLastNameInput.Text & empFirstNameInput.Text & " | Onborading")});

...
 ..... , folderId: newTask.Id})
...

Hope this gets you "back on task" 😉

[ebDev]

thank you so much!

and that pun made my day! 🙂